Van Vorst, Marie, 1867-1936 · Paris : Brentano's · leaf 160
of entire comfort andbien être. The work, in point of view of modelling anddrawing, is absolute perfection. This treatment of thenude has the strength and power of marble with theaddition of colour. In none of Besnards paintings isthe luminous quality more striking. There is in it anopalescence and… … PAUL ALBERT BESNARD background a penumbra of azuré, from which thebrilliant figure of the woman cornes dazzlingly forth. The pictures ni the possession of Monsieur Mar-tignac deserve note. Le Sourire, painted in i 895, isa portrait of merit and perhaps particularly interestingbecause…
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